An Australian Doctor is promoting a "peaceful pill" that will end one's life in the comfort of your home. A do-it-yourself death without the need for the presence a Dr Death.
"You can do everything yourself, acquire what you need access what is ultimately the most peaceful way of a peaceful death," Dr. Philip Nitschke of Exit International said Saturday.
He is in Toronto for an international right-to-die conference. He has helped produce a book instructing people on how to make the pill.
"If you can manage things yourself you don't break laws," Nitschke said.
But what about the laws of God?
"Not only is suicide a sin, it is THE sin. It is the ultimate and absolute evil, the refusal to take interest in existence; the refusal to take the oath of loyalty to life. The man who kills a man, kills a man. The man who kills himself, kills all men; as far as he is concerned he wipes out the world." G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy.
To call the pill "peaceful" is quite a claim considering any peace that would come from the pill would be mighty short-lived.
"Abortion on demand" was indeed a slippery slope on life issues. Before we know it the "right-to-die" campaign will be replaced by the "duty-to-die" campaign.